Dave Jordano, who was born in Detroit but left for Chicago in the 1970s, returned in 2010 to investigate the changes in his hometown. Having worked for decades as a commercial photographer, he turned to fine art and documentary photography about fifteen years ago. Jordano summarizes the impulse that drives his work—“that Detroit is still a living, breathing city, struggling perhaps, but full of people surviving.” His project, Detroit: Unbroken Down, is a combination of portraiture and documentary photography, and empathizes with those he has befriended in some of Detroit’s poorest neighborhoods.